This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L.B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the 1960s that universal
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Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016. | Author(s): Steven L B Jensen | Posted on: January, 01 , 2016
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